Issue 64, 2008
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Craft Interview:Marge Piercy & David Lehman
Editorial:Part II - My Time with William Packard
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The Present State of American Poetry: "Croesus & Crisis" and "What's the Matter with Poety?" by F. D. Reeve; In Memoriam: Julie Moulds (Rybicki), Scott Odom, Tony Quagliano, and John Tagliabue

POET TITLE
George Bilgere   UNWISE PURCHASES
David Lehman   STUMP SPEECH
Marge Piercy   THE CALL OF THE TAME
  IMMUNITY
David Lehman   POEM IN THE MANNER...EARLY MODERNISTS
  POEM IN THE MANNER OF A HIT SONG...
John Amen   DHARMA
Matthew Zapruder   TWENTY POEMS FOR NOELLE
Sam Magavern   METAPHYSICS
Dorianne Laux   EACH WORD
Donald Lev   THE FESTIVAL
Fred Yannantuono   DIG IN
Grace Zabriskie   from DETAILS OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE FICTION
Bruce Weigl   THE CAVES AT CHINA BEACH
F. D. Reeve   THE CAUSES OF WAR: LUST
A. D. Winans   EARLY MORNING POEM
Douglas Treem   DID YOU EVER HEAR HIM SING...
Justin Marks   FIRES
Urayoán Noel   NEW YORK CITY SESTINA
Robert Nazarene   IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON BEING PUBLISHED...
Tony Gloeggler   ARRANGEMENTS
Eileen Hennessy   SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY
Shya Scanlon   BODY DOUBLE
Stephanie Dickinson   DINER
Christopher Cunningham   THE WOUNDED TREES ARE STILL DYING
Kaveh Akbar   I WOULD'VE MADE NOSTRADAMUS LOOK...
Bob Hicok   BECOMING THE MAN I WAS
Joanna Fuhrman   CHILDREN'S SONG MORAINE
Nicole Callihan   FIRST COMING
Craig Fishbane   BANGKOK
Jackie Sheeler   THE MAKER
Sampson Starkweather   XIII
Norman Stock   THERE'S HOPE FOR US YET
Jayne Lyn Stahl   UNDER THAT BRIDGE
Michael Walsh   PINUP GIRL
Fred Yannantuono   INCEST PALINDROME
Elisavietta Ritchie   CHIMNEY SWEEP NOVEMBER
Oren Wagner   VOLUPTUOUS GLOOM
Eliot Katz   MARCHING BAREFOOT
Jason Tandon   TENDENCY
Dennis Bernstein   COMING OUT AS SUICIDE
Iris Lee   INSPIRATION
Philip Hickman   ROBOTS
Greg Schwartz   [CROWDED BIRDBATH]
Jennifer K. Sweeney   WHEN ARIEL WHISPERS
Zebulon Huset   IN PASSING IN A PUB AT 2 A.M.
Stephen Cramer   TASTE
Lauren Lawrence   ANDY WARHOL'S WHITE CAR CRASH...
Christopher Goodrich   MEN ARE FROM EARTH WOMEN ARE FROM EARTH
Shane Allison   A PANTOUM FOR MICHAEL
Erica Miriam Fabri   THE POET AND THE TRUCK DRIVER
Colette Inez   LUBA STAR GAZING
Joseph Heithaus   VENOM
Ryan Quinn Flanagan   MIRACLES AND ACCIDENTS
Mookie Katigbak   CARDAMOM
Gordon Massman   541
William Meyer, Jr.   BRIGHT OUSIA
Kathi Morrison-Taylor   THE STRAY
Cheryl Pallant   91
Chip Livingston   DAD JOKES AROUND BEFORE DEFINING AIDS
Judith A. Rypma   QUARTZ LOVE
Angelika Quirk   INGRID
Jim Reese   THE SANDWICH SHOP
Melita Schaum   FRAGMENT 69
Mukoma Wa Ngugi   BIRD IN FLIGHT
Pat Schneider   PENN STATION NEW YORK CITY
Alison Stone   LILITH'S DAUGHTER ON A DATE
William Taylor, Jr.   ME & OTHER GHOSTS
Lynne Savitt   TRIBUTE TO ALL THOSE YEARS...
Cathy McCabe   UNTITLED
Lyn Lifshin   JUST AFTER FORSYTHIA AFTER ICED RAIN
Holly Interlandi   NOTHING'S SHOCKING
Scott Odom   TRANSMOGRIFICATIONS
Ted Jonathan   HURLY-BURLY BUROO
Bill Garvey   HUNGRY HILL
Steve Henn   MINIVAN WARRIOR
Josefine Kals   I MAY NEVER TELL YOU...
Allison deFreese   INK
Judith Rowe Michaels   SILENT AS THE SPHINX
Doug Martin   ARIANA LOVE HALLUCINATING WALT...
Julie Moulds   GHOST
Graham Hillard   WHAT IS LOST
Elisabeth Murawski   CHILDLESS COUPLE
Mary Ann Samyn   GRETEL'S DREAM
R. K. Wallace   HOME SICKNESS ON THIRD STREET PROMENADE
Matt Morris   DEGREES OF HELL IN HATTIESBURG
Yoon Sik Kim   OKLAHOMA IS OK
Stephen Stepanchev   LINE-UP
Daniel J. Langton   TESTS
Gerald Locklin   GOOD IN BED
Maria Lisella   LADIES WHO LUNCH...
Lisa Palma   MARKET STREET
April Puciata   WISH
Chris Souza   DEBORAH
Gayle Elen Harvey   MAGNOLIA LATE BLOSSOMING
John Tagliabue   NOT THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN...
Alister Sanderson   FLIGHT RECORDER
Ken Waldman   IN KNOWLEDGE
Delisa Mulkey   GIRLS IN BOXES
Ryan G. Van Cleave   APPALONE COMMUNITY COLLEGE...
Joel Allegretti   FIDDLE
Kristen Tracy   HEPATOSCOPY
Christine Ann Cuccio   LIMELIGHT CIRCA 1984
Yu Yan Chen   I DREAM
Carol Hattrup   A GIRL TAKES A LINUX CLASS AT IBM
Elizabeth Swados   HALF WAY
Jared Harel   GRAVEDIGGER'S TONGUE
A. D. Winans   WINTER POEM
Sue Payne   ON READING TOO MUCH BILLY COLLINS
Paul Notzka   OVERHEARD
Michael Quattrone   WIST
Patrick Carrington   THIRST
Tony Quagliano   THE SURVIVALIST
Douglas Goetsch   THE JOB OF BEING EVERYBODY
Lewis Turco   MORTOPHOBIA: THE FEAR OF DEATH
Michael Montlack   UH DIDN'T YOU GET THE MEMO?
Brian Hendrickson   AN ELEGY TO NEARSIGHTEDNESS
Emily Kendal Frey   ATHENA
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez   NOCHES
Katherine M. Hedeen   NIGHTS
Stan Badgett   A PLACE TO THINK
Laurence Loeb   METRO NORTH
Stephen Herz   THE PINK TRIANGLE
Tasia Marie Hane   THE CONSEQUENCES OF MEASURING VOLCANOES
Andrea O'Brien   RUNNING AT DAYBREAK
Robert Schultz   INTO THE NEW WORLD
Lauren Fanelli   LOVER
Andrea M. Lockett   IMAGINING MAN
Tony Quagliano   BETWEEN A ROCK AND MAHATMA...